Samsung joins the OPC Foundation

Samsung Electronics has joined the OPC Foundation as a Corporate Member, in order to accelerate deploying interoperable Industrial edge platform into its manufacturing infrastructures relying on OPC UA framework.

OPC is an interoperability standard for the secure and reliable exchange of data and information in industrial automation and other industries. It ensures the seamless flow of information among multi-vendor platforms. More than 500 companies participate in creating the series of specifications for the OPC standard. Samsung Electronics, one of the largest consumer and mobile electronics manufacturers worldwide, believes in the great potential of the OPC UA framework to deploy an Industrial IoT edge platform for its manufacturing infrastructure, in order to achieve seamless Industry 4.0 interoperability.

Kyeongwoon Lee, Senior Vice President of IoT at Samsung Electronics, comments: “The true potential of Industrial IoT will be realized with solutions that guarantee interoperability across business domains, where are independent from vendors and platforms on the market. As one of the largest manufacturing companies in the world, we see its great value proposition of the OPC Foundation in terms of protocol interoperability that enables seamless Industrial IoT services. Especially, the OPC Foundation delivers the promising solutions of the OPC UA framework in terms of not only specifications, but also the reliable open source implementations, which guarantees the OPC UA Certifications. This will help us to accelerate our efforts in deploying the interoperable Industrial IoT edge platform for our manufacturing infrastructures.”

Thomas J. Burke OPC Foundation President & Executive Director, welcomes Samsung Electronics joining the OPC Foundation: “Samsung Electronics is one of the most important companies that truly is leading-edge in manufacturing excellence bringing quality products to the consumer market. Samsung will be able to leverage the OPC UA multivendor multiplatform technology in their manufacturing facilities to have complete information integration addressing the complex requirements of the industrial Internet of things as they leverage data and information integration from the sensors to the cloud. The OPC Foundation will be working closely with Samsung to give them the highest quality OPC UA enabled certified products from their suppliers to continue their manufacturing excellence.”